Beto O'Rourke

Some Texas Democrats say they’re ready to stage a second walkout to again stop one of America’s most restrictive voting measures. Hundreds of people waited hours at the Texas Capitol on Saturday to testify against the GOP’s second try at passing new election laws.

Beto O’Rourke is again weighing another campaign — this time for governor.

President-elect Joe Biden has named Jen O’Malley Dillon as deputy chief of staff. Dillon has a long history of helping Democrats. Here are five things to know about the Massachusetts native.

Former candidates for the Democratic nomination for President gather to discuss how they feel about Joe Biden.

Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are climbing toward a record high this year.

In his Nov. 4, 2019, monologue, Jimmy Fallon jokes about President Donald Trump being booed at a UFC fight and Beto O’Rourke dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.

In his Nov. 4, 2019, monologue, Jimmy Fallon jokes about President Donald Trump being booed at a UFC fight and Beto O’Rourke dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says President Donald Trump should resign as Congress begins an impeachment investigation. O’Rourke said Saturday there shouldn’t be a fear of an impeachment probe intensifying partisan divisions. The former Texas congressman said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin that he believes impeaching Trump would ultimately unify the country. But O’Rourke says “the best thing”...

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...

Democratic presidential candidates made a colorful and often loud pitch to Iowa Democrats at the Steak Fry fundraiser in Des Moines on Saturday as a new poll showed Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden in a close race in the state. The event, a fundraiser for the Polk County Democratic Party and one of the biggest remaining opportunities for candidates to...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday used Twitter to share an edited video made by a conservative comedian that falsely accused Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of dancing and partying last week on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The inaccurate video provoked new Twitter criticism of the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota, who has regularly faced accusations from her critics...

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang opposes impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of new allegations of sexual misconduct from the justice’s time in college, Yang told necn’s “Primary Source” Tuesday. Some Democrats believe that the new allegation, detailed in The New York Times this weekend, indicates that Kavanaugh lied under oath during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, which...

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke defended his call for mandatory buybacks of certain semi-automatic weapons in an exclusive interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday, pushing back on criticism from Republicans — as well as some from within his own party — who think the Democratic presidential hopeful’s proposal has gone too far. O’Rourke said the opposition to his proposal shows “how...

Struggling Democratic presidential candidates are facing the bad news that they are not among the 10 who have qualified for the next debate, a predicament that is likely to spell doom for their campaigns. Hours ahead of a midnight Wednesday deadline to qualify, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced she was dropping out of the race after spending at least...

The stage at the next presidential debate will be a little less crowded. Ten candidates met the new polling qualifications for the next debate, as opposed to the twenty that showed for the first two.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday before touring a Northern California town ravaged by wildfire, declaring the setting a “wake-up call for our entire nation” to the dangers of a warming planet. “Climate change is a major, major crisis for our country, and the entire world, and one of the manifestations of that...

President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets. “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters as he returned to Washington from his New Jersey golf club. “We’re doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich. I gave a tremendous tax...

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is canceling a series of campaign stops in Iowa and will remain in El Paso through the weekend as his hometown continues to cope with a mass shooting that killed 22 people.

Hours before a Wednesday trip to El Paso, Texas, President Donald Trump responded to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s criticism of his visit by mocking his Hispanic nickname and telling the former congressman of the border city to “be quiet.” O’Rourke, along with some residents and local Democratic lawmakers, said Trump was not welcome in his hometown El Paso, and...

The gunman arrested in the El Paso shooting that left 22 people dead was charged with capital murder on Sunday, and authorities are treating the attack as a domestic terrorism case. El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty, adding, “We will hold him accountable.” “We have...